Telecommunications company said its engineers were investigating a network fault
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Optus has been hit by a nationwide outage, with its mobile phone and internet services down for millions of Australian customers and businesses.
On its website early on Wednesday, Optus said its engineers were investigating a network fault affecting customers.
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